Word: doled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...erode. High school bands in swing states will go back to playing at football games instead of political rallies. Our airwaves can be reclaimed in the name of products we don't need, after having been temporarily subjugated by candidates we don't want. It is all over. Bob Dole, who first faced the voters at age 27, has waged his last campaign and lost. Bill Clinton, who ran his first race at age 28, has waged his last campaign...
This sad, self-deprecating reality first hit me when "Beverly Hills 90210" soared to popularity. It was brought into sharper focus by Bob Dole's convention speech and his oft quoted characterization of a "core of the elite" within the Clinton administration "who never grew up, never did anything real, never sacrificed, never suffered and never learned..." I don't know whether that sheltered elite exists in the White House, but I have come to realize that it definitely exists at Harvard...
...Dole's definition, Harvard's" core of the elite" is quite substantial. We are easily identified by our middle and upper class origins. We owned Star Wars action figures, watched He-Man and Rainbow Bright, played Atari and loved Molly Ringwald. Our national tragedies were the Challenger disaster and the stock market crash of 1987. We attended high school as the Berlin Wall crumbled and joined in celebrating the victory that our elders...
...next time we sit down in a dorm room to solve a national crisis, we should heed the words of Bob Dole. Thankfully, we have never sacrificed nor suffered, and thus we may have never truly learned. If we had actually marched for civil rights, how would we feel about affirmative action? If our friends had died in the hills of North Korea, would we be so critical of those who feared communism? If we had given something of ourselves for this country, would a politician's patriotic loyalties mean so little...
...Gelsone '00 said she was voting Republican, although she added that she thinks Dole will lose...